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ArticleParticipatory forest conservation, restoration, and sanitation in a resilient and resistant social-ecological system in Mexico
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.The world continues the search for effective mechanisms to protect the natural heritage of forested landscapes. Mexico is among the most important forested and mega-biodiverse countries, with some 60% (62.6 million ha) of forests owned by communities, which operate as common property forest social-ecological systems (SES). Mexican forests are under varying natural and anthropic threats, but community collective action around forest management is the most important response for facing them. Here, we document experiences of participatory-adaptive forest management for conservation, restoration and sanitation in community forests. Combined methods were used, included: document review, participatory mapping, forest cover analysis, community workshops, key actor interviews and participant observation. Participatory forest management strategies by varying communities commonly used community resources, labor, cultural values, local traditional knowledge and governance institutions, both with and without sustained government support. The hundreds of voluntary conservation areas demonstrate that nature and people can coexist. As well, thousands of participatory forest restorations are based on cultural motivations and concerns for environmental legacies. Also, despite the growing bark beetle threat in temperate forests, large- scale participatory sanitation logging illustrates the opportunities to maintain forest health at the community level. A better understanding of approaches that improve resistance and adaptive capacity in forest SES, may help to design public policies for government and non-governmental interventions oriented to support and strengthen grassroots initiatives in Mexico and beyond. Lessons from bottom-up collective action examples can help to build a more sustainable future in comparable inhabited forests. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, habitat conservation, forest transition, climate change, local governance. ID: 3487226 -
Book (stand-alone)Aquaculture and poverty: past, present and future prospects of impact 1999
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No results found.There is increasing concern among development agencies that development should be socially as well as environmentally sustainable. A major question that was posed at the Donor Consultation is to what extent is aquaculture a poverty reducing technology? It is well recognized through a series of reviews, the latest being the Study of International Fisheries Research Needs for Developing Countries (SIFR) (World Bank et al, 1992), that there has been limited impact of most donor funded fisheries dev elopment projects in general. With respect to reducing poverty specifically, experience with projects in Africa and Latin America led Martinez-Espinosa (1992) to refer to rural aquaculture, small-scale aquaculture systems appropriate for the poor, as a “myth” and “no panacea for solving the problems of rural social emargination”. The purpose of this paper is to show that aquaculture can and does contribute to the sustainable rural livelihoods of poor farming households; and that it could contr ibute more widely to improving the welfare of the poor if appropriate approaches were implemented by development agencies. -
DocumentChina and FAO: the past, present and future of a fruitful partnership 2013
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China and FAO maintain close cooperation in the domain of food and agriculture development, which has had fruitful consequences on the way to eradicating worldwide hunger over the past forty years.
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